These days we have a special opportunity to learn from up close about our angers, and how to manage them. We can learn about the way we deal with misunderstandings and frustrations. And if we use this time well we can change some well-embedded prints in order to gain better ways to deal with anger and stress.
The Sun, Mars and retrograding Mercury are all aligned these days in the skies. All in the Astrological Realm of Nobility. The Realm of Nobility teaches us how to stay focused and centered, no matter what is happening around us. It is related to learning how to stay in our inner still core, not tilted or bothered by this or that scenario.
Mercury, the conduit of thinking, speaking and socializing is on a course of retrogression that will last till September 5th. Mercury’s retrogression is a good time to re-think things that we may have decided upon during the last 3-4 months. It is also a great opportunity to learn how to better communicate and have tolerance. But Mercury’s retrogression is quite often, nothing to be too alarmed about. This time the skies are special due to Mars, which is very close to the Sun and Mercury and undergoes a rare conjunction.
The planet Mars, named after the Roman god of war, is a big challenger in the chart. This is the planet that is connected to how we DO things, to our ability to handle projects and actualize our ideas. It is also the planet that is connected to our angers and stress. These days Mars is in conjunction to the True Node – the same point that last week, when the Sun and Moon were in conjunction, the solar eclipse occurred. The conjunction of Mars to the True Node is rare and special. It happens only once every two and a half years. This is a time of significance. A time to let go of patterns issuing from the past concerning anger and stress and a time to re-write the way we do things. This is a time to get out of our regular course of getting hot and exploding with anger, or getting stressed and worried and becoming frozen because of that. Instead of our usual patterns, with awareness, we can notice the points in which Mars’s energy enters us, and we can handle it in a better and much more productive way. This is a time of finding new pathways of behavior, choosing not to fight, freeze or flight as our instinct would want us to do, but instead – use the energy of Mars in an educated way in order to do with it that which can be of help to us and others.
Opportunities to see our angers and stresses will be abundant this week, due to Mars’ strong influence and to Mercury’s retrogression. What we need to do Is to apply awareness and not let ourselves slip into our old and automatic patterns of behavior.
This awareness should always be applied, of-course, but during this week there is a special celestial assistance to not only act in a better way, but to really re-print our patterns, lose old habits and make new, better ones.